Music: Khamosh Shah

Lyrics: Vijay Maurya, Khamosh Shah, Azazul Haque, Swanand Kirkire

A music album like Hunterrr can be interesting and fun to review because you really don’t know what to expect from the film. After all the film, which professes to not be a sex comedy but rather be a comedy about a guy who loves to have sex, this film has created a lot of buzz with the music doing great on the music charts. Therefore clearing my mind, I plunge to do a song by song review for the music album of the movie. Here’s what I felt of the songs…

Hunterrr 303: Sung by Bappi Lahiri, this song will fill you with nostalgia. The approach to the song is simply like Mithun Chakraborty’s Disco numbers. This sort of composition always works with the crowds and Bappi’s vocals just make the hearing even more pleasurable. Vijay Maurya’s lyrics are apt and fit perfectly with the theme of the movie. A must have in all parties.

Chori chori: Sung by Arijit Singh and Sona Mohapatra, this song is a romantic lullaby. It sweet and has that jingle effect to it, which makes you fall in love with this song. To top it all Arijit and Sona’s vocals are dripping with melody. Khamosh Shah’s lyrics too are soothing and asking to be loved. If you are a romantic at heart you will fall in love all over again after listening to this track. A must have for every romantic person out there.

Na heer na hoor: Sung by Nakash Aziz of Saree ke fall sa (R…Rajkumar) fame, this song is fun and will give you that teenage feeling. The lyrics of the song suggest that when you need to have sex nothing matters. Azazul Haque’s lyrics bring to life every teenager’s fantasies. It’s Nakash’s vocals that strikingly stand out in this rendition. The song maybe situational for the film, but will definitely be a hit among the virgins who are dying to deflower or vice versa.

Naina: Sung by Khamosh Shah himself, this is another romantic track that you wouldn’t want to miss. This is a very simple yet very soothing track. The track doesn’t have too much of hi-fi stuff but it’s Khamosh’s vocals and Azazul Haque’s lyrics that make this a must hear. However, I agree the song would have sounded better had a Javed Ali or Mohit Chauhan rendered the song. If you are away from you loved ones or travelling to reach them, this song is for you. A must have.

Bachpan: Sung by Amit Trivedi, this song is a slow narrative piece. It’s more like those memory blogs where you start becoming nostalgic. Swanand Kirkire’s lyrics make you remember about all those things you used to do as a kid, then as a teenager and then as a college goer. It reminds you of all those dreams and aspirations that you had at some point in life. The slow paced track lives high on the Swanand’s superb lyrics and Amit’s heavy vocals. But if they needed gravity enough they should have made Amitabh Bachchan sing this piece, which would have been fab. A must have if you are in you hometown and you are going past those lanes and bylanes of your childhood.

Ye naa gade: Sung by Anand Shinde and Vaishali Made, this is possibly the first original Marathi song in a Bollywood film. Penned by Vijay Maurya, this song brings forth a lot of energy into the album. Considering the story is based out of a small town in Maharashtra, this song makes sense. It’s the high pitched and fast vocals that make this song a must have. This can be a great dance number during Ganesh pooja processions. Rest times avoidable.

Dil lagaana: Sung by Altaf Raja, this song is a quintessential qawalli. Altaf Raja is back with a bang. However tacky you find this song, this will be stuck in your mind long after you come out of the theater. Altaf’s vocals still hold that impact, WOW! The lyrics by Khamosh Shah are cheesy to the limit that they make you get up and dance like the 1990s. A must have if you are with your friends and you don’t want anything classy after a couple of drinks.

Verdict: One thing I have to admit, the soundtrack of Hunterrr has variety and what proportions. On one hand you have Bappi da, then on the other you have Altaf saab. The songs are worthy of space in your music players and will stick on to you for long. Some may even become cult. A MUST HAVE ALBUM!

The title track of Hunterrr is as quirky and funny as its kickass trailer. Watch video for the latest lyrical video…

Sex comedies are not something new in Bollywood. There was a time when our films where plagued with sex comedies, which where neither sexy nor funny. But when I watched the trailer of Gulshan Devaiah-Radhika Apte starrer Hunterrr, I couldn’t stifle my laughter as the promor managed to tickle my funny bone. And I thought to myself, “After a long time I have seen a trailer of a sex comedy, that is hot, quirky and funny at the same time.”

The makers of Hunterrr have unveiled the title track, Hunterrr 303, which promises to take you on joy ride. I took a sneak peak of the song and this is what I thought of it:

As the song opens, its tele shopping style treatment instantly catches your eye as you snuggle in your seat to wondering how the song would turn out to be. Gulshan Devaiah, who plays a womaniser in the film, gives you three easy steps to pick up a girl. The actor seems to be having a lot of fun doing Bollywood style song and dance, but at times looks a little out of place. Radhika Apte, who made headlines when her doppelganger’s nude pics made to internet, looks extremely sexy and classy in the black dress. The song has a lot of fun elements and quirk factor to keep you hooked. Sung by Bappi Lahiri in his unique style, the song has repeat value as the tune will stick to your head long after the song is over.

This lyrical video makes you want to hum along with Bappi da for this supremely fun track. Watch the lyrical Hunterrr 303 song right here.

A galaxy of B-town celebrities were seen at this wedding reception. Check out the pictures right here!

Producer Smita Thackeray‘s son Rahul Thackeray married Aditi Redkar in a grand ceremony in Mumbai earlier this week. Many B-town celebs including Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar attended the wedding reception that was held yesterday (February 13).

So appalling! The filmmaker did the unthinkable at a recent event. Read on for more details

We recently told you how Vikramaditya Motwane’s upcoming film, Bhavesh Joshi with Sidharth Malhotra got shelved. And because of this the filmmaker is highly disturbed these days, it seems. To an extent that he took this unpleasantness to another level at a recent press conference.

The Lootera director along with musician Bappi Lahiri was present at the music launch of Hunterrr. It so happened that a journalist asked Bappi a question on the recent Delhi elections. However, before the singer could answer that question, a raging Vikramaditya lashed out at the journalist and asked for their mike to be snatched away. After some urging by Vikram, the publicists took away the mike from the journo.

But then another female journalist asked Bappi Da the same question regarding AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal’s landslide win in Delhi. As he once again prepared to answer this, the director looked at the journalist and said that he would hit her by throwing his mike at her. Naturally, this didn’t go down too well with the journalist, who got up from her seat and warned Vikram to never repeat the action. The filmmaker certainly had this coming.

Looks like the director ignored all those lessons on respecting women.

The title track of Hunterrr is as quirky and funny as its kickass trailer. Watch video

Sex comedies are not something new in Bollywood. There was a time when our films where plagued with sex comedies, which where neither sexy nor funny. But when I watched the trailer of Gulshan Devaiah-Radhika Apte starrer Hunterrr, I couldn’t stifle my laughter as the promor managed to tickle my funny bone. And I thought to my self,” After a long time I have seen a trailer of a sex comedy, that is hot, quirky and funny at the same time.”

The makers of Hunterrr have unveiled the title track, Hunterrr 303, which promises to take you on joy ride. I took a sneak peak of the song and this is what I thought of it:

As the song opens, its tele shopping style treatment instantly catches your eye as you snuggle in your seat to wondering how the song would turn out to be. Gulshan Devaiah, who plays a womaniser in the film, gives you three easy steps to pick up a girl. The actor seems to be having a lot of fun doing Bollywood style song and dance, but at times looks a little out of place. Radhika Apte, who made headlines when her doppelganger’s nude pics made to internet, looks extremely sexy and classy in the black dress. The song has a lot of fun elements and quirk factor to keep you hooked. Sung by Bappi Lahiri in his unique style, the song has repeat value as the tune will stick to your head long after the song is over.

Nikhil Dwivedi and Richa Chadha’s upcoming desi love story seems to have instilled the desi-ness in the songs as well. Read to find out why we say so…

The makers of Tamanchey have released the teaser of the first song from the film. The song is a remixed version of the yesteryear cult classic song Pyar mein dil pe maar de goli from Amitabh Bachchan’s Mahaan. This time over Nikhil Dwivedi and Richa Chadha are seen giving their romantic journey a new twitch and this song describes literally as to what they plan to do.

Highlights:

-The song, originally sung by Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle and Bappi Lahiri, has been remixed and this version too sounds decent.

-The lyrics by Puneet Sharma fit the song perfectly. The theme of the movie is very well described via this song, thus remixing this song made sense.

-Nikhil Dwivedi and Richa Chadha’s chemistry is not seen that much in this teaser and we hope the full song will show a lot more of them.

-The feel of the teaser has been kept very ‘jhintak’. It may go aptly with the tone of the film but for someone who is just watching the video, it might seem to be a bit sleazy.

So go ahead BollywoodLifers, have a look at the song teaser and keep reading this space for the full song review!

The biography launch of the veteran actor was a star-studded event

It was one of the most memorable nights when several celebrities from the film fraternity attended the launch of Dilip Kumar’s biography, titled The Substance And The Shadow, held in Mumbai on Monday (June 9).

The event, which was hosted by Karan Johar started with veteran actor Vyjantimala, Madhuri Dixit-Nene and Priyanka Chopra lighting the lamp to open the event.

The book was then released by Dilip’s wife Saira Banu, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Dharmendra.

The retro king of Bollywood is contesting elections on BJP ticket from Serampore

Bappi Lahiri started on a high note this morning. Contesting the Lok Sabha Elections 2014 was ahead of his competition in Serampore! The singer-composer had filed his papers for the seat comprising parts of Hooghly and Howrah districts, Bappi Lahiri garnered a lot attention. The actor even planned to have a starry campaign that had everyone from Salman Khan, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle voicing support for him. While this grand event didn’t take place, the 61-year-old music composer was backed by many in B-town and all the best wishes were helping the chirpy singer to lead in Serampur in West Bengal.

However, the latest buzz suggests that the singer is now on a back foot, with tough competition from CPI (M) and TMC contestants in Serampore. Will Bappi da rise back and win a seat or will he lose? Well, wait and watch this space…

The music composer is leading in his constituency

Famed music composer Bappi Lahiri, contesting the Lok Sabha Elections 2014 on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket, in Serampore is leading! Accompanied by his son, daughter and son-in-law, Lahiri filed his papers for the seat which comprises parts of Hooghly and Howrah districts, Bappi Lahiri garnered a lot attention.

The effervescent 61-year-old music composer was backed by many in B-town and now all the prayers are helping the chirpy singer to lead in Serampur in West Bengal. The count is still on but at the moment Bappi Lahiri is shining with every vote being counted!

Testimony to star power, glamour was a key element in this year’s election

Away from the arc lights, greasepaint and comfort, a slew of popular faces from Indian cinema such as Hema Malini, Moon Moon Sen and Chiranjeevi barnstormed either as contestants or campaigners for the national election, adding glamour and spicing up the 10-phased poll that concluded Monday.

In India’s financial and entertainment capital Mumbai, more than two dozen Hindi and Marathi celebrities came out to add a dash of glamour. For instance, Rakhi Sawant, who contested from Mumbai North-West on the ticket of her Rashtriya Aam Party, attracted more attention for her colourful designer attire than her political issues, while filmmaker-actor Mahesh Manjrekar of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena for the same seat attracted a fair crowd, setting off alarms in other parties.

Renowned Marathi actor Nandu Madhav contested the Beed seat on the Aam Aadmi Party ticket against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gopinath Munde, while the Nationalist Congress Party nominated former actress Navneet Kaur-Rana for Amravati. Samajwadi Party candidate from Mumbai North Central Farhan Azmi got able support from his chic and charming wife, actress Ayesha Takia.

Punjab’s capital Chandigarh witnessed a charged and glamourised contest between two actresses – Kirron Kher, the quintessential ‘Mummyji’ of several Bollywood films, as the BJP candidate, and her AAP challenger, the much younger Gul Panag. Both seem to be a formidable challenge – and a possible threat – to the four-time Chandigarh MP Pawan Kumar Bansal, the incumbent.

Vinod Khanna contested the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab for the fourth time. His campaign saw his actor son Akshaye and other stars joining in. A three-time MP, Khanna lost to Pratap Singh Bajwa of the Congress in the 2009 elections. However, Bajwa, now the Punjab Congress president, faces a tough challenge from him.

In Sangrur, actor-comedian Bhagwant Mann (AAP) provided a worthy challenge to the Congress and Akali Dal candidates, while actor Sunny Deol too held a road show in the constituency. In Haryana, actress Raveena Tandon added glamour by campaigning for industrialist-cum-politician Naveen Jindal (Congress).

The glamour quotient was no less in West Bengal. The likes of Moon Moon Sen, reigning matinee idol Dev, yesteryear heroine Sandhya Roy, and incumbents Shatabdi Roy and Tapas Pal glamourised the Trinamool’s nomination list, while eminent actors George Baker, Nimu Bhowmick and Joy Bandopadhyay did so for the BJP. Then, there was CPI-M nominated Subhashini Ali, who designed the costumes for the 1981 classic “Umrao Jaan”, besides dabbling in acting in “Asoka” and critically acclaimed “Amu”.

National Award winning actor Mithun Chakraborty emerged as one of the star campaigners of the Trinamool, while Nagma and Padmini Kohlapure campaigned for the Congress. Shatrughan Sinha addressed a meeting in support of the BJP. Down south, in Tamil Nadu, where five of the state’s chief ministers – C.N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi, M.G. Ramachandran, Janaki Ramachandran and J. Jayalalitha – had their roots in filmdom, several other actors showed an interest in politics. The leader of opposition and DMDK founder A. Vijayakant was a leading action hero.

This time the two major parties – AIADMK and DMK – had fielded several movie stars as their star campaigners. The AIADMK had on its side R. Ramarajan, Vennira Aadai Nirmala, S. Anantharaaj, Senthil, Gundu Kalyanam, Vindhya, Kuyili and others, while the most popular amongst DMK’s star campaigners were Kushboo and Vagai Chandrasekhar. AIADMK’s Anantharaaj said: “I was able to meet lots of people. I addressed around 50 meetings a day. Nice experience.”

Fair complexioned Anantharaaj, 49, is now sun-tanned due to 40 days of electioneering. ”My focus was to highlight the achievements of the AIADMK government and our leader,” said the actor who has done about 300 movies. From the Kannada film industry, leading actress and outgoing Congress lawmaker Ramya re-contested from the Mandya Lok Sabha constituency, about 100 km from Bangalore. She is among the 21 women who contested in the April 17 general elections from across the state, which has 28 Lok Sabha seats.

She brought in star power in the form of Kannada actors Upendra, Ganesh, Bhavana and Umashree as her campaigners. Geetha, wife of Kannada hero Shivrajkumar and daughter of former state chief minister S. Bangarappa, contested from Shimoga on the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) ticket against BJP candidate and former state chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. Besides Shivrajkumar, his brothers Raghavendra and Puneet Rajkumar and Kannada superstar Sudeep campaigned for Geetha. Legendary Telugu actor and Union Tourism Minister Chiranjeevi campaigned for Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M. Veerappa Moily, who re-contested from Chikkballapur; and another popular Telugu actor Pawan Kalyan, younger sibling of Chiranjeevi, campaigned for BJP candidates in Bangalore and Chikkaballapur.

Popular Kannada actress and BJP lawmaker Tara also campaigned for party candidates in Bangalore, Shimoga and Udupi-Chikmaglur from where BJP’s former woman minister Shobha Karadlaje contested. Kerala wasn’t far behind. The biggest surprise came when the CPI-M led left opposition decided to field ace comedian Innocent from the Chalakudy constituency in Thrissur district, his home town. Innocent, 69, president of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA), turned out to be a crowd puller. The icing on the cake was that he roped in big names like Mammootty for campaigning. Thespian Madhu and Kaviyoor Ponamma also campaigned, along with directors Kamal Sathyan Anthikadu.